I'll wait a bit before getting this expansion after I was burned on the last two
I'm expecting a rose tinted launch experience that will wear off and show it's true colors after a few months (just like the last two).
I'll wait a bit before getting this expansion after I was burned on the last two
I'm expecting a rose tinted launch experience that will wear off and show it's true colors after a few months (just like the last two).
Boggles my brain that there isn't an ingame-features trailer for this product yet. Where's the hype marketing at all?
Wrath Classic ads have gotten my attention far more. They made a new trailer just to re-hype DKs
Nobody except those asinine PuG group leaders that have outrageous requirements to join their group.
But I think it would be safe to say that if the bonus conferred by these older power systems are significant (i.e. More than 5% player power) then players will farm them up regardless of the grind. The nature of wow playerbase is truly one that min/maxes even if it isn't "fun"
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Wrath Classic is on pre-patch and launching in a few hours (at the time of posting this). We still don't have a release date for Dragonflight. Maybe when we're 2 weeks out from the pre-patch THEN you'll see the marketing arm do more.
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At the very least, the pre-patch (system overhaul) is now up on the PTR for everyone to try. I'd recommend players go and check that out with the new talent tree.
One thing of note is that you won't be at full strength (compared to live) because you'll be missing some talent points that you earn from level 61 to 70.
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pugs are nuts youll see day 1 pugs for vaults requiring something like CE jailer or something
i expect a features trailer by the end of the month probably launching around the survival guide for the prepatch
i cant wait for my monk to get the new talent treatment (yeah theres only like 3 actual new talents but getting to smash all these things together is amazing)
I simply cannot understand how people of all things are advocating for Borrowed Power... like seriously, even Titanforging is better than Borrowed Power.
Look at the success of Classic and the absence of Borrowed Power there, Borrowed Power does more harm than good.
Ask for anything, but please don't ask for Borrowed Power. I beg you!
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The Borrowed Power system was the worst system ever implemented in this game.
I'm kind of glad I got access to the beta it will save me 60 bucks to be honest.
It is very boring indeed, it feels like playing a new patch.
Apart from the new class (that feels unfinnished), it's just a revamp of existing systems:
- class revamp: I tried 3 classes, nothing new, just adding things from the past to choose between. However, you do get the feeling to play with a strong char from the beginning, which is a good point.
- flying with the dragon, well it's just flying with a twist (you go up and then down, instead of going straight ), except you are forced to fly with a special mount, it's kind of frustrating, but you do get to fly very early for sure
- profession, well its profession you know so you craft things lol, nothing new here
- dungeons, same mechanism, nothing new here it's just a set of new dungeon
- rep is replaced with renown so nothing new here
- you can pimp your drake, amazing right?
- no news regarding loot philisophy so I guess we are good for 2 more years of stupid RNG until blizzard realizes nobody is playing anymore
- maybe raid will be good but will be certainly the same thing we have since 16 years...
The new zones are amazing, and some players are gona love the expac just because of that. When you take the main hub and compare it to Oriblos, you kind of feel bad for SL . But art team always delivers so nothing new here I would.
One guy said it very well in another thread, if you are on the fence and hesitate to buy, wait until 10.1 to actually see where this expac is going, guarantee you won't miss anything from release. It's as bad as BFA or DF, no innovation from that side. Long unskippable dialogue quests, like prepare to be on netflix while leveling...
Let's hope you don't have to do it on alts lol.
The whole expac feels like Blizzard is afraid of trying new stuff and taking risk (which is understandable when thinking about BFA and DF). Or maybe the talents are working on another game or for another studio. But it really feels like old same old same so if you are looking for a new expac that will blow your mind with crazy new features, nope, you won't like it xD
Last edited by Labambaprincess; 2022-09-23 at 12:33 PM.
I'm excited because for me the worst thing about BFA/SL was all the bloat.
Torghast, Covenants, The Maw, Expeditions, Warfronts etc. etc. I never found any of these things exciting, just wasted content.
Dragonflight seems to be going back go basics, they are trying to make the game great not just bloat us out with boring, repetive content and busy work. That's what excites me.
This is the first time ever where I am not super hyped about an expansion, but I will still definitely play it.
Dragonriding looks super cool and it will definitely be an interesting gimmick for a good while.
Crafting looks OK, better than before and the new talent trees are kinda cool, but overall almost every class plays more or less the same as always.
However outside of that it is basically more of the exact same stuff we've seen recently. If you have enjoyed SL then you may enjoy DF basically, but those that didn't like SL or BfA won't like this expansion either (which is most people). There has been virtually no innovation to endgame content and to the leveling experience (this one's just as bad as SL).
Unless they have a release cycle of content like we've seen in Legion and there is a constant flow of content, I'd say that it will be a good expansion. However as soon as people get into a routine they'll notice how it's almost the same as SL.
These were very exciting features when announced actually, but their execution and implementation in game was awfull.
I don't know if you have access to the beta, but you gona "going arround in circle" quite fast in DF, unless something big is revealed before december or added in 10.1
It's the problem with going back to basics, it becomes very boring very fast.
Torghast, Covenants, The Maw, Expeditions, Warfronts etc. etc. would have been great features if Blizzard cared to listen to feedback...
But it's another subject I hope you'll find entertainment in DF my friend
Last edited by Labambaprincess; 2022-09-26 at 11:59 AM.
I'm actually unusually excited for a wow expansion, but that's because i only do 2 things in wow: random battlegrounds and ganking people in the open world. So the game systems updates are very good as far as I'm concerned (new talent system that won't require me to grind covenant bullshit to unlock talents conduits and will give me my beloved gouge back after all these years, pvp gear that will put everyone on a largely equal footing in BGs (modulo PvE trinkets probably bc blizzard gonna blizzard), solo rated queue to get conquest points, i love all of this)
But I do see how the theme and world building isn't very appealing (but then again I haven't really been appealed by any of that since probably pandaria). I just hope there will still be enough people around in the open world.
Last edited by ClownPrincess; 2022-09-23 at 03:40 PM.
Azerite/Artifact power is just as bad as not having those. Asking blizzard to design overarching power progression system that doesnt suck is too much, so we are left with do raid/m+/pvp or log off. Its not bad, but personally I liked having something to grind inbetween content.
We're way into the managing decline phase. We're going to see basically more of the same until the game dies.
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So if not Dragonflight, what expansion would have people wanted?
See that's when WoW was at it's best for me. I just like to log on do my chosen thing (arena, raid or M+) and log off. I don't like there being stacks of content I feel like I "need" to do to keep my character up to date. It also deters me from making an alt, as it's just needing to do that all again.